Paper on First Nations Education Funding

[Pages:56]Paper on First Nations Education

Funding

First Nations Education Council

February 2009

This paper will be updated regularly to identify costs where estimates are missing and to update costs to reflect current needs.

First Version February 2009

Table of contents

Introduction

9

Why should Canada care?

10

Section 1: Elementary and secondary education funding

12

How is First Nations elementary and secondary education funded?

12

How much funding is allocated for First Nations education on-reserve?

12

First Nations education funding shortfall

16

Missing educational components within the existing funding formula

19

Vocational Training in Quebec

23

Education capital and maintenance funding

24

Section 2: First Nations education systems

26

What is a First Nations education system?

26

The lack of support for First Nations education systems

28

Funding a First Nations education system

30

Section 3: Post-secondary education funding

33

The need for post-secondary education

33

Current funding provided to First Nations students

34

The importance of Indigenous Institutes of Higher Learning

37

Current funding provided to Indigenous Institutes of Higher Learning

39

Section 4: Recommendations

42

What is needed to equitably fund First Nations education?

42

First Nations education funding framework required

46

Bibliography

47

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